Merit systems board sides with USGS scientist in whistleblower case
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Elizabeth Duan | December 19, 2023
The Merit Systems Protection Board on Monday upheld a judge’s ruling that the U.S. Geological Survey unlawfully retaliated against an agency-scientist-turned-whistleblower. In a two-judge decision, the board largely sided with the judge’s ruling in favor of Eveline (Evi) ...
EPA Is Considering Approval of Pesticide Despite Not Meeting Safety Standards
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PEER | December 16, 2023
Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist who now works with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the emails provide more evidence that the EPA needs an overhaul and that it is steeped in an “industry-beholden culture” that persists regardless of which ...
PEER Sues National Park Service for Disclosure of Wi-Fi, Cell Tower Records in 3 Parks
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Elizabeth Duan | December 14, 2023
The public interest organization, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), sued the National Park Service (NPS) under the Freedom of Information Act Tuesday to compel the agency to disclose records related to Wi-Fi or cellular proposals and installations across three parks ...
‘Forever Fields’: How Pennsylvania became a dumping ground for discarded artificial turf
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Elizabeth Duan | December 13, 2023
Money doesn’t come easily to farmland owners in the tranquil, rolling hills of Pennsylvania. So at first, Jim Halkias thought he’d hit the jackpot. A real estate broker had approached him in late 2018, and explained that a Denmark-based recycling company called Re-Match wanted to pay $ ...
EPA gets until Friday to answer Oak Ridge Freedom of Information suit
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Elizabeth Duan | December 12, 2023
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has given the U.S. government until this Friday, Dec. 15, to answer a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by an environmental group over documents concerning a low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s… Read the PEER Story ...
TSCA Orders Face Appellate Review But EPA Enforcement Suit May Continue
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Elizabeth Duan |
Inhance Technologies is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to scrap EPA’s landmark TSCA orders requiring the company to halt plastic fluorination that also produces PFAS, but both sides are also aiming to continue a first-of-its-kind suit — in a trial court in a ...